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It’s an open, collaborative celebration of marketing success stories from 2017. Unlike pricey award shows, Show & Tell 2018 gives you a chance to show off your client wins and marketing eureka moments to industry peers. Five showstopping, concise presentations accompanied by lite bites and beer on tap.

Hobnob Tuesday, January 30th with fellow interactive marketers. It will be a night to remember showcasing the best in 2017 Houston marketing–where creativity runs wild and Saint Arnold’s beer will runneth over.

It’s January and a start to a new year. It is the time of year when health professionals are reminding and urging us all to schedule those preventative health check-up appointments now. As HR and total rewards professionals, what are you doing to encourage organizational health with regards to total reward programs this new year? Tam Nguyen of NB Business Solutions will provide you with a check list and road map to ensure total rewards health in 2018 and beyond. Come join us on January 17th to learn how NB Business Solutions partnered with Frank’s International and Thermon, Inc. to build foundation and infrastructure, setting them up for organizational health today and in the future. A panel of HR leaders will share challenges they faced throughout the phases of creating, building, and transforming and will provide practical tips and ideas to help you align total rewards strategy with the business to ensure compensation and benefits program’s health and wellness.

Static diagrams on wikis and white-boards might capture the vision of architects, but they don’t much help programmers to understand how the code they’re working on right now fits into the architecture. Nor are the programmers warned when they violate the diagrams as they forge changes, line-by-line.

This is a huge problem – it is ultimately individual lines of code that make or break an architecture; and we know that a clean architecture will help teams develop a more flexible product, with less complexity, less wasted effort, etc.

Worse, without practical architectural guidance, programmers wrestle with invisible structures that emerge from thousands of inter-dependent lines of code. And being invisible, these structures become ever more complex, coupled, and tangled. In fact, uncontrolled structure actively fights against productive development. This talk shows how to rein in emergent code-base structures and gradually transform them into a cogent, defined architecture.

You will see how…

Visualizing the emergent structure makes a code-base easier to understand.
Restructuring to remove tangles and reduce coupling makes the visualized code-base easier to work on.
Specifying layering and dependency rules converts good structure into a controlled architecture that guides the team as the code-base evolves and grows.
A key ingredient is a live visualization, inside the IDE, of the detailed code the programmer is working on, in the context of the overall architecture. In short, you will learn how bridging the architect/programmer divide can convert code-base structure from liability into an asset that actively works for development productivity.